The Evil Never Dies Podcast
S4 Ep286: Mid-Week : At The Gates.... Slaughter Of The Soul Review
For the mid-week show Brett reviews At The Gates Slaughter Of The Soul from 1995! #atthegates #slaughterofthesoul
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- Duration:
- 20m
- Broadcast on:
- 04 Sep 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
This is the Evil Never Dies podcast midweek show. Stay Evil everyone. [Music] What's up Evil ones? Welcome back to the Evil Never Dies podcast episode 286 midweek show. How's everybody doing so far this week? It's actually cooled down here at rain all day today and I don't think it even hit 80 degrees. Very nice. Have the door open. Yeah hoping we stay out of the 100 degree temperatures now for the rest of the year. I hope we're done with them. All right this week for the mid week we're gonna go over to Sweden and we're gonna be talking death metal this evening folks. I'm gonna be reviewing the band at the Gates fourth studio album slaughter of the soul. Little background on the band at the Gates they are formed in 1990 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Now at the Gates they were like one of the first major bands to start up the that Gothenburg style melodic death metal. Some other bands you may know are in flames and dark tranquility. Now I guess what sets the Swedish death metal apart from the U.S. death metal scene is like I said they're more like a melodic death metal being that they use a lot of keyboards and synthesizers and the guitar work is a little bit more intricate as well. Now this album I'm going to be covering tonight and reviewing slaughter of the soul. It was considered a landmark in the Gothenburg melodic death metal scene. A lot of these bands all recorded albums around the same time. All right like I said this is their fourth studio album. It was recorded from May through July of 1995 at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden. The genre is death metal or melodic death metal. Not a very long album it's only 34 minutes and 10 seconds long and it was released on earache records which is a British independent record label produced by Frederick Nordstrom and at the Gates. All right the band members we got Tomas Lindbergh on vocals Anders Bjorler on guitar phaser drums on the song Into the Dead Sky. Martin Larson on guitar Jonas Bjorler on bass guitar and Adrian Erlinson on drums and they got a special guest on the record. He does a guitar solo on the song Cold and that is Andy LeRote who is the longtime guitarist for King Diamond and he's also a record producer also. Production team like I said we got Frederick Nordstrom as the producer. Noel Somerville did the mastering, Christian Whalen, artwork and logo, absolute design associates, additional artwork and layout, frequent form logo concept and like I said it was at Studio Friedman, Gothenburg, Sweden that's where they recorded and mixed it and it was mastered at transformation and that studio Fredman or Friedman or how I reset that is the producer studio. Now the album cover it's got all kinds of stuff going on on it but mostly it's like religious overtones basically so pretty cool album cover and this album only charted in Japan at number 200 on their list and it gets some good accolades though. In 2005 it was ranked number 300 and Rock Hard Magazine's book of the 500 greatest rock and metal albums of all time. Metal injection ranked slaughter of the soul eighth on their top ten list of influential heavy metal albums. The album was inducted in the Despo magazines Hall of Fame in March 2005 being the second album overall to receive such award. In 2017 Rolling Stone ranked slaughter the soul is 79th on their list of the 100 greatest metal albums of all time. They also later ranked the title track number 87 on their list of the 100 greatest heavy metal songs of all time so they got some good accolades out of that. Okay let's go to the track listing here. Track one we got planted by fear and I think that was released as their like first single really and they had a music video for it. I remember seeing it on headbanger's ball back in the day. Track two title track to the record slaughter of the soul. Track three cold. Track four under a serpent son. Track five into the dead sky and that's an instrumental. Track six suicide nation and that's probably the hardest song on the album for sure. Track seven world of lies. Track eight unto others. Track nine nausea. Track ten need and track eleven the flames of the end and that's another instrumental. Both very good instrumentals on that album too by the way. Some bands just throw them instrumentals in I think for fillers but these are actually good. Then in 2002 they did a reissue with some bonus tracks did some cover songs and some demos that were recorded when they first did the album. They actually did the song capture of sin by slayer and couldn't really tell it was that song when they first started off on that so then in 2006 they did a reissue bonus DVD with the making of the slaughter of the soul album deleted sing scenes and the blinded by fear music video then in 2008 they put a another bonus DVD out with a bunch of live in concert videos and it also has the making of the album deleted scenes and the blinded by fear music video. All right the tour they really didn't have too big of a tour right after the album was released they played a show in Germany I think at a festival and then they came over to the US and did like five shows with morbid angel and then after that did like five shows with napalm death and they did a couple off shows on their own too but they only had like 10 to 15 shows for the whole tour so not much on the tour they did play Dallas though at the galaxy club which I don't think even exists anymore so I have to ask Carl about that one if you've ever seen any shows at the galaxy club who knows they may have had a longer tour but unfortunately they broke up in 96 there and had like a 11 year hiatus and got back together in 2011 I guess in 2008 they did a tour a one-off tour must have got offered a bunch of money so they grabbed it and then they got back and gather in 2011 and come out with another album 2014 and they've been playing ever since so good luck to them guys but anyway I'm gonna how am I gonna rate this I have never really listened to much of these guys before very good stuff I'm very impressed by it I think I may have seen the blinded by fear video a few times even but it's not it's been a while so but I think that's the song that came on my Apple Day so I listened to the whole album and I like it very good mix with the key boards and the intricate guitar work and every song on the album is really a banger sounds like it was pretty much well produced sounds good I'm gonna give this a 3.8 out of 5 devil horns so that is all I got for at the gates slaughter of the soul thanks for watching and listening and check us out on all the social medias I think we're gonna do a a contest here soon I got to talk to Carl about it see what he thinks so stay tuned for that also we might announce that on this week's episode full-length I think we're doing psycho this week so stay tuned for that that should be a good one I just ordered the blu-ray today so all right hit that like and subscribe button on the YouTube leave us a review or a rating on Apple or Spotify or wherever you can leave a reviewer rating and like I said check us out on all the social medias and we will talk to you Sunday stay evil everybody (tense music) (tense music) (tense music) (tense music) (tense music) (tense music) (tense music) We are blind, and the world is within us, waiting to be born. 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